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How to opt out of Meta’s Muse AI image generator before it steals your posts

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July 8, 2026

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Meta just launched a new “advanced image generation” tool called Muse, and it’s understandable if you’d want to ignore it, given the general glut of AI slop online. However, you might want to pay more attention to Muse because it’s been discovered that it’s pulling from people’s original images and videos from other Meta apps. []

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Wired

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· Jul 7, 2026

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

Engadget

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· Jul 11, 2026

Meta deactivates feature that let you generate AI images of any public Instagram account

Meta has deactivated the Muse Image capability to create AI deepfakes of any public Instagram account you @-mention.

Mashable

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· Jul 8, 2026

New Meta AI tool lets users alter photos on public Instagram accounts

Meta lets its new AI tool use your Instagram photos to generate images. Here's how to stop it.

QuintDaily

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· Jun 24, 2026

Can AI Actually Remove Wrinkles from Photos? Here’s What the Technology Can and Can’t Do

AI photo editing has moved fast over the last few years — fast enough that plenty of people now genuinely trust it with photos that matter. But wrinkle removal is one of those tasks where the gap between “impressive demo” and “reliable real-world result” is still worth understanding before you commit to a tool. The [] The post Can AI Actually Remove Wrinkles from Photos? Here’s What the Technology Can and Can’t Do appeared first on QuintDaily.

Digital Trends

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· Jul 10, 2026

Instagram is letting people generate AI images of you. Here’s how to stop it.

Instagram's new Muse AI lets anyone use your photos to generate AI images and videos, and you're opted in by default. Here's how to find the setting and turn it off before someone else uses your face without asking.

Salon

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· Jun 23, 2026

Google’s investment in AI tools for A24 sparks backlash

With a major investment from Google's DeepMind AI initiative, the trendy studio takes a hard turn away from fans

The Economic Times

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· Jul 11, 2026

Meta scraps AI image feature after backlash

Meta scraps AI image feature after backlash

Seeking Alpha

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· Jun 27, 2026

Micron Technology: The Replaceable Role Of Memory In The AI ​​Value Chain

Micron Technology: The Replaceable Role Of Memory In The AI ​​Value Chain

BingNews

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· Jul 3, 2026

Transformer les emojis en art

Transformer les emojis en art!!

TechCrunch

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· Jul 9, 2026

How to stop Meta’s AI image generator from using your Instagram photos

Meta's new AI image generator is using your public Instagram photos unless you opt out. Here's how to do that.

TechRepublic

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· Jul 8, 2026

Meta’s Muse Image Explained: What to Know About the New AI Image Model

Meta Muse Image brings AI image generation to Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta AI. Here’s what users should know about features and privacy. The post Meta’s Muse Image Explained: What to Know About the New AI Image Model appeared first on TechRepublic.

Quartz

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· Jul 7, 2026

Meta is launching its first in-house AI image generator for consumers and advertisers

Muse Image, developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, will power image creation across Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta's ad tools

Variety

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· Jul 10, 2026

Meta AI Can Now Use Your Instagram Photos Without Consent. SAG-AFTRA Urges App Users to Opt Out: ‘Take Action to Protect Your Likeness’

SAG-AFTRA is urging its members and all Instagram users to take action against Meta’s new Muse Image model, which has been woven into the Instagram app and makes public accounts susceptible to AI generations of their content. Per Wired: “All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt— if it’s public []

The Next Web

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· Jul 11, 2026

Meta killed its Muse Image AI feature three days after launch. Hollywood had had enough.

Meta has pulled its Muse Image AI feature from Instagram and the Meta AI app just three days after launch, saying the tool “missed the mark” on user privacy. The model, the first image generator to emerge from Meta Superintelligence Labs under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, launched on Tuesday with a design flaw that proved [] This story continues at The Next Web

The Eastern Herald

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· Jul 13, 2026

Meta Pulled Its Instagram AI Feature That Used People’s Photos Without Consent

Meta pulled its Instagram Muse Image AI feature three days after launch amid backlash over non-consensual imagery concerns. The Creative Artists Agency raised alarms after account owners received no notification when their photos were used in AI-generated content.

Inc.com

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· Jul 12, 2026

3 Days After Introducing an AI Feature, Meta Hits Pause in Wake of Privacy Backlash

Muse Image allowed users to create AI-generated images from photos posted on Instagram—without permission. ‘We missed the mark,” Meta admits.

CNET

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· Jul 7, 2026

Meta Has a New AI Image Tool, and I Already Used It to Deepfake My Friend's Instagram

Instagram users might want to opt out of this AI setting right now.

DNyuz

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· Jul 9, 2026

CAA Calls on Meta to Tighten Muse AI Likeness Protections: ‘True Innovation Puts Creators First’

CAA called on Meta to better protect users’ personal likeness on Wednesday after criticism mounted over the tech company’s new AI image generator, Muse. “No one’s name, image, likeness, voice or creative work should be used by any third party, including AI models, without clear, documented consent,” the agency wrote in a statement to TheWrap. []

The Tribune

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· Jul 11, 2026

Amid criticism, Meta reins in new AI tool that automatically accessed public Instagram images

Meta has pulled the plug on a feature of a recently launched AI tool following criticism that it made Instagram accounts fodder for use in creating AI-generated images. The move on Friday came less than a week after the parent of Instagram and Facebook rolled out Muse Image, its first image-generation model available through the []

Al Jazeera

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· Jul 11, 2026

Meta backtracks on AI-image feature for Instagram due to privacy backlash

Meta has rolled back its ‘Muse Image’ AI feature after widespread backlash over privacy and consent.

NewsOne

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· Jul 10, 2026

Everything You Need To Know About Meta’s Muse Image

Meta unveiled its AI image generator, Muse, this week. Here’s everything we know about it and how you can opt out of your content being used by it.

Smithsonian Magazine

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· Jun 24, 2026

The ‘Odyssey,’ One of the World’s Oldest Stories, Gets a Modern Spin With A.I.-Generated Audiobook Narration by the Voice Clone of an Oscar Winner

Meanwhile, other actors are pushing back against the use of artificial intelligence in creative projects, including through a new “human consent” registry tool

Off The Press

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· Jul 12, 2026

Instagram abruptly drops new AI tool after privacy backlash

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta took down a new artificial intelligence model for Instagram on Friday, just days after debuting this feature to immediate public backlash. The company advertised its Muse Image AI model on Tuesday as a “creative partner” that people could use to generate AI photos for their social media pages. However, []...Click to read more

CBC News

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· Jul 10, 2026

Meta axes feature that allowed tagging Instagram users to generate AI images of them

Meta killed one feature of its new Muse Image system that would let users tag Instagram accounts and generate images based on an account's profile and posts. Its initial announcement also revealed, to the dismay of some, that Meta AI permissions are automatically turned on for users with public accounts in other countries — including Canada — and must be switched off manually in app settings.

BoingBoing

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· Jul 9, 2026

How to opt out of Meta using your Instagram posts to make AI images

There are already plenty of reasons to stay the hell away from anything that Meta has its grubby little rat hooks on: Facebook surveils and monetizes everything you do while you're online, and their shitty Meta AI glasses pick up the surveillance slack in meatspace, capturing every moment they're on your face while robbing others of their privacy to boot. — Read the rest The post How to opt out of Meta using your Instagram posts to make AI images appeared first on Boing Boing.

Investing.com

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· Jul 11, 2026

Meta scraps AI image feature days after launch following privacy backlash

Meta scraps AI image feature days after launch following privacy backlash

Sweden Herald

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· Jul 11, 2026

Meta withdraws criticized feature from new AI image tool

Meta withdraws criticized feature from new AI image tool

The Meta Newsroom

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· Jul 7, 2026

Introducing Muse Image: Image Generation Built for Your World

Muse Image is the first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, now available in Meta AI. The post Introducing Muse Image: Image Generation Built for Your World appeared first on Meta Newsroom.

Borneo Bulletin

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· Jul 1, 2026

Fear and anger brew inside Meta amid AI frenzy

Fear and anger brew inside Meta amid AI frenzy

The Hacker News

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· Jul 9, 2026

Meta's New AI Image Tool Lets Others Use Your Public Instagram Photos in AI Images

Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it's enabled by default. You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific Instagram profiles right into your images, the social media giant said in a post. Whether you want to design a custom event invitation

Fark

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· Jul 9, 2026

Meta has unveiled an "fun new feature" that allows anyone to use your image or voice from videos you upload to Instagram to create AI deepfakes. and they're so sure you'll love it they've opted you in. Here's how to opt-out [Facepalm]

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Cosmopolitan

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· Jul 1, 2026

Backstage Beauty Secrets: How Makeup Artists Fix Caking and Creasing the Pro Way

Try ‘em if your foundation always looks thick, dry, or patchy.

ArcaMax

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· Jul 9, 2026

Meta's new AI image generation tool raises alarm in Hollywood and on Instagram

A new tool that lets people take publicly posted Instagram photos and use AI to generate new images from them is creating a backlash in Hollywood. Instagram’s parent company, Meta, on Tuesday rolled out the new AI feature, called Muse Image, ...

Gamesradar

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· Jun 22, 2026

Kingdom Hearts Collection cover art quietly changes following accusations of AI generation

Kingdom Hearts Collection cover art quietly changes following accusations of AI generation

Computerworld

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· Jul 13, 2026

Meta pulls Instagram AI feature amid privacy concerns

Meta pulled a new AI feature on Instagram just days after its launch because of criticism about how the tool handled publicly posted photos. The feature was part of the new AI image generator, Muse Image, and allowed AI-generated images to be created using content from public Instagram accounts. By specifying a public account with an @mention, users could let the AI ​​model use the person’s images as a reference without informing the account holder. The launch quickly prompted concerns about privacy and the risk of abuse, with critics saying the feature could be used to create manipulated or offensive images based on other people’s public content. Meta said its the goal was to give users a creative tool where they could decide for themselves whether their public content could be used. But it removed the feature after feedback that the feature did not meet expectations.

The Japan Times

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· Jul 9, 2026

AI-related copyright losses cost celebrities up to ¥4.5 billion, study says

Over 43,000 AI-generated images and videos that used celebrities' likenesses without their consent were created over a two-month period last year.

The Hill

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· Jul 12, 2026

Meta u-turns on AI feature amid privacy backlash

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta took down a new artificial intelligence model for Instagram on Friday, just days after debuting this feature to immediate public backlash. The company advertised its Muse Image AI model on Tuesday as a “creative partner” that people could use to generate AI photos for their social media pages. However,...

USA TODAY

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· Jul 9, 2026

Don’t want Meta using your IG photos for AI? Here’s what you can do

Meta's newly launched Muse Image is the tech giant's first AI image generator. Read more: Sign up for our newsletter for the day's top stories, from sports to movies to politics to world events: https://profile.usatoday.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/

BOL News

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· Jul 12, 2026

Meta ditches AI image feature after privacy backlash

The feature faced criticism over privacy concerns. The post Meta ditches AI image feature after privacy backlash appeared first on BOL News.

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